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The transaction is expected to close later this year pending closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

In a blog post, Extreme CEO Ed Meyercord said Zebra’s WLAN products will be meshed with the company’s ExtremeWireless product line. Among Zebra products are a series of new access point offerings, which include a wall plate and tri-radio APs. Zebra’s wireless intrusion prevention system will also be integrated within Extreme’s products. Zebra is also known for its NSight visibility and analytics tool.

“WLAN is the fastest growing segment in the networking industry,” Meyercord said in a statement.” Our heritage of delivering innovative and pioneering technology is reinforced with today’s announcement, underscoring our commitment to providing customers worldwide with unified visibility and control across their wired and wireless networks.”

Farpoint Group principal analyst Craig Mathias said the deal will provide additional technological heft to Extreme, which will also inherit products Zebra acquired from its 2014 purchase of Motorola Solutions’ enterprise group. “They have a strong customer base and perhaps even some useful products at a bargain price,” he said.

Extreme’s purchase of Zebra’s WLAN operations comes as networking systems vendors continue to snap up wireless vendors. In the last four years, Cisco acquired Meraki, Hewlett Packard Enterprise purchased Aruba Networks, Fortinet bought Meru Networks and most recently, Brocade plunked down $1.2 billion to purchase Ruckus Wireless. Dell-EMC, meantime, struck an agreement with Aerohive Networks earlier this year to consolidate some of its products and to resell others in a bid to extend Dell’s enterprise switching business.

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